The next morning, Osai, who is the proprietress of the geisha house, pays a visit to Yoichibŕ's
cottage in order to take Okaru to Gion. She hands to Okaru's mother Okaya 50 ry˘, half the price of Okaru's service.
They all are waiting for Yoichibŕ and Kanpei.

Kanpei comes home, and he finds that Yoichibŕ hasn't come home yet.
Osai shows her purse, and says that she gave the same purse to Yoichibŕ last night.
Kanpei founds the same purse last night, so he thinks that he killed Yoichibŕ.
Kanpei realizes that Okaru sold herself in order to make money for him.
Although Okaru and Okaya would like to wait for Yoichibŕ, Kanpei says that he met Yoichibŕ last night,
and that they don't need to worry about him.
Osai takes Okaru to Gion, and Kanpei can do nothing then.

After that, three hunters carry Yoichibŕ's dead body to the cottage.
Okaya is very surprised, and she wonders why Kanpei doesn't see it.
Okaya finds that Kanpei has the same purse that Osai showed before, and it has a blood stain.
She thinks that Yoichibŕ was killed by Kanpei.

When Okaya asks why Kanpei has killed Yoichibŕ, Senzaki Yagor˘ and Hara G˘emon arrive at the cottage. After Kanpei killed Sadakur˘, he ran after Yagor˘ and gave him the 50 ry˘.
However, they say that the chief retainer Yuranosuke didn't allow Kanpei to join them, and they came here to return the 50 ry˘ to him.
Yuranosuke thought that Kanpei must have done an unreasonable thing to make the money.
So he didn't accept his wish. Okaya tells them everything about the murder of her husband and the two men join her in abusing Kanpei.

Yagor˘ and G˘emon are about to leave but Kanpei stops them. He suddenly commits seppuku and says that everything was caused by his mistake.
Yagor˘ examines Yoichibŕ's dead body, and finds that he was killed by a sword.
There is no bullet wound. Yagor˘ and G˘emon saw Sadakur˘'s dead body on the way to Yoichibŕ's cottage.
Yagor˘ says that Kanpei killed Sadakur˘ after Sadakur˘ killed Yoichibŕ.
It means that Kanpei took revenge on Sadakur˘ for the killing of his father-in-law. Okaya, full of remorses, clings to Kanpei and weeps.

G˘emon takes a scroll, the secret covenant with the signatures of the vendetta members.
He writes Kanpei's name and asks him to put his blood fingerprint on it.
Kanpei becomes a member of the vendetta of lord En'ya. Senzaki Yagor˘ and Hara G˘emon leave the cottage while Kanpei dies in the arms of his mother-in-law.